August 12, 2024 • 32 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF. I am sixty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. You
may have felt the earthquake earlier. It was a four
point four. Thank god it wasn't the big one. But
I have the Shake alert and I hope you get
it too. It's a it's an app that warns you
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a couple of seconds before the earthquake kids, and that
sort of freaks you out, but it prepares you well
what's coming. And we have a guy who's very involved
with this. Robert de Grute is with us. Robert, how
are you, sir?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I'm good? How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I'm doing great. We had Lucy Jones on earlier, Doctor
Lucy Jones.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
She said to say, hey, yeah, she's amazing.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
She's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
But she said, you're the new guy. You know, she
stepped aside, and you're that and you're now the guy
that has to calm everybody down after these after this activity.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Lucy's a hard act to follow.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
That's true. That's true, all right.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
So how many shake alerts or how many earthquake warning
apps are out there?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
You know of either five or the one hundred.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Sure you can learn about the sorts of alerts, alert
delivery apps and such. If you visit shakelert dot org. Okay,
and there's a link there that I'll get to to
where you want to go to get your phone set up.
And there are a few ways to get alerts on
your phones. One is through the same system that delivers
Amber alerts, wireless emergency alerts, and if you have your
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emergency alerts set up on your phone in your notification section,
you'll get those automatically. And then there are a couple
of apps that you can download. My Shake which is
produced by UC Berkeley that is available in the App
Store for either Android or for iOS. And then there's
something called shake rady SD which is actually published developed
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by the County of San Diego and I know it's
San Diego County, but they actually deliver earthquake alerts throughout
the date of hell. So I got one on my phone.
And then the last way of getting alerts currently is
through phones that are powered by the Android operating system,
So essentially Google Google delivers alerts through the Android operating system.
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And our advice is to go ahead and get them
all if you're able to, and just get alerts from
as many places as possible. I got alerts today both
from my Shake and from shake ratey SD on my phone.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Are they free? Are they pay subscription?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Everything is free. And part of it is is this
is Shake Alert is our public earthquake early warning systems.
It's your earth quick early warning system. So these services
are all free, okay.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
And they operate.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I'm sure there are sensors around that trigger the alert.
Is that how it happens.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yes, Basically how it works is the same seismometers that
detect earthquakes that have always been detecting earthquakes have been
set up in such a way to continue doing what
they've always been doing. But then there's also a channel
where they move information in a fraction of a second
from where the earthquake is happening to a processing center.
And the under the hood stuff is basically these these
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detection algorithms that calculate the estimated location, magnitude and shaking
intensities around the earthquake super fast, and then we hand
it off to Google, into my Shake and to we
and others, and they turn around deliver alerts to people's phones.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
And this is happening in microseconds.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
It's happening in fractions of a second. Yes, imagine you know,
everything happening. So the amount of data that we use
to actually calculate that first estimate is put your hand
on your heart. Feel a couple of heartbeats. That's the
amount of time it takes the Shake LIT system to
do what it does.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Wow, that's great technology. I mean that what a you know.
I can't imagine not having it on your phone. I
don't know what app would be more important than that.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
That's right. Well, it's one tool in your toolbox. So
tell everyone, do what you've always been doing. Drop govern
hold on if you feel shaking, have your emergency supply
kits available. Do everything that you've been told to do
in the past. But add this new tool, the Shake
Earthquake Early Warning System, to your phone and get alerts
and hopefully you'll receive an alert before shaking a rise.
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But one thing to remember is that you may feel
a little bit of shaking before you get the alert.
That actually has happened to me twice already with the
O High earthquake back in August of twenty twenty three,
and even with the earthquake just recently, tiny bit of shaking.
But what we want to do is we want to
get alerts to people before the heaviest shaking rise, the
stuff that could cause injury or damage, and you can
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get to a place where you can protect yourself.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Okay, and again this is great Robert de Grudez with us.
He's with you can go to shake alert dot com.
But can you adjust these for magnitude, like I don't
want to be bothered by anything that's under or under
a five point zero.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah, So one of the things to know is that,
And you can find out more information about all of
this on shake alert dot org or follow us on
x at USGS underscore shake alert. And currently what you
can do is you can only set up the products
to receive alerts at the levels that they have preset.
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And there's a reasoning behind that. Shake alert is really
a balance between speed and accuracy, and what we want
to do is want to get alerts to people who
need them the most. So, yes, sometimes you may feel
a little bit of shaking and still get an alert,
but what you're guaranteeing by that is that the people
who are closer in closer to the epicenter will get
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that alert sooner. Because basically you've chosen or you're getting
the alert at the level that you're getting it at.
So it's a trade off, right, But there's so many
earthquakes in California, like fifty a day, that the chances
that you may be near one that you may need
that alert, it's pretty likely. I mean, just look at
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what's been happening. We had OHI back in August of
twenty three, we had the Barstowl earthquake, back on July
twenty ninth, the Laman earthquake, last Tuesday, and today Highland Park.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Now, doctor Lucy Jones said when the big one hits
that it'll either start in the north. It's like ripping
a piece of paper, it'll start in the south, or
it'll start in the north. If it does start in
the north, well how many seconds will we have up
to a minute before we start radically feeling it.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
So the earthquake that she's referring to is the great
shakeout scenario, and that is an earthquake that even if
it starts in the south, say Bombay Beach, and I'll
use that example. Basically, will happen is we will pick
up that earthquake in the first several seconds that when
it reaches a surface, and what will happen in that case,
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much like what happened in Barstoor excuse me in last week. Yeah,
the system will be triggered and alerts will be sent
out ahead. So in my case last week, I had
in the order of fifteen seconds of warning time before
I felt shaking one life and I felt shaking it
at home. So imagine that that even if the earthquick
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starts in the north farther north, say you know, one
hundred and eighty miles north or one hundred and eighty
miles south for this event, if Senator has fault like
eight hundred miles long, will get you know, a considerable
amount of warning time before the before the shaking arrives
at our location. And when that's the idea behind shake alert, right, and.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
When the big one hits, will the entire San Andrea's
fault move at the same time, all eight hundred miles
of it.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Think of it kind of like unzipping a zipper on
a sweater, and it's unzipping and the pulse of the
earthquake it's in Lucy probably used the tearing of a
piece of paper with you and just imagine that that
rip moving up and basically the fault is moving progressing.
The fault is moving as as the earthquake is progressing
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up the fault, and it takes, in this case with
the earthquake that we're talking about, around ninety seconds for
the entire entire one hundred and eighty miles to rupture.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
So and basically what's happenings that as as as the
earthquake is moving up the fault over those course of
the ninety seconds, there's energy being released. Imagine just dropping
like hundreds and hundreds of pebbles into a pond and
having all these ripples moving away. And that's that's basically
what's happening. But what's really cool about shake Older is
that as soon as that earthquake reaches the surface, that's
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when the system is triggered and that's when all the
action starts. Okay, quick swings in.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Action, Robert, I'm sorry, can we have you hold on
a ton more questions about this?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Do you mind?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Absolutely anything you wants?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
This is the best.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Okay, Robert Grute is with us Shake alert dot org.
Go to the website shake alert dot org. I have
more questions. This app could save your life if you've
got the porstion out of online.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Welcome to kfive.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
We're talking with with Robert here, Robert DeGroot shakelert dot
org to warn you about the next one or the
big one, God forbid heaven.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
It's got all the all the it's the bestments that
you you were talking about.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
You make on it. Yeah, in magnitude. It's awesome.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
We'll go back and continue talking about the shake alert
shake alert dot org. Go get it now while you're
thinking about it, and this is this is great. Robert
knows more about than anybody.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Shake alert dot org. You got to get the shake
alert on your phone so you can be warned when
the big one hits. I think we all not a
lot of us are saying it, but we're all thinking it.
Way too many quakes. Where's the big one? Robert, Welcome back.
I really appreciate coming on. Do we have Are we
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any closer to predicting earthquakes than we were thousand years ago?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
There have been periods of time where there's been a
lot of optimism around being able to predict earthquakes in
the sense that we know an earthquake is going to
happen in this particular place at this time, and it's
going to be this size. But a lot of those
efforts have been sort of put aside, and rather than
putting resources into the prediction side of things, we're putting
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a lot of resources into improving our infrastructure and early Yeah,
early warning is actually a really nice trade off where
we we're improving our computer software, our instruments, our equipment
to pick up that earthquake the moment that it reaches
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the surface and moving that information quickly and doing something
with it right away so lorts can get to people,
and that to us is the most tangible and most
accessible thing that we can be doing right now. Is
really improving that plus also all the things we do
to be earthquake ready.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Yes, right, And you can learn on all about all
this stuff at shake alert dot org. I know there's
a lot of people tuning in a KFI. Maybe for
the first time you got a notice here that we're
talking about this shake alert. This could save your life,
So thank god you're tuning in now, Robert. I also
heard that that we may have been we may be
late to the game. Mexico's had this technology for a
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long time, so is Japan.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Is that true?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
So there have been earthquake early warning systems in other
countries for a long time, and Mexico developed THEIRS after
the nineteen eighty five Mitri Conn earthquake and debuted there's
just a few years later, and then Japan started their's
developed THEIRS after the nineteen ninety five Kobe earthquake. And
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we have been working on early warning for some time,
and there's some early sort of tests that we did
actually right around the time of the Loma Priet earthquake
in nineteen eighty nine. But our system is top of
the line. In fact, our system and the Japanese system
are very very similar. But then the Canadians just debuted
their system in Western British Columbia and we'll be expanding
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to other parts of the country and it's very similar
to our system. So we're using state of the art
everything for this public or quick early warning system.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I have the box Office Alert and it warns me
anytime John Travolta releases a.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Movie that's awesome. Yeah, I don't even know what that means.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
But you know Sharon Bellio who lives down in Irvine,
she was up here in Burbank and she didn't get
the early warning. She didn't get the Shake alert because
she lives in Irvine, and I think her phone thought
she was a Irvine. Is that technology travel with you
if you're in San Francisco and the big one hits,
but yet you live in Irvine, will it miss you
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or will it warn you?
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
So the alerts were delivered today to people who were
in a certain intense to range. And the idea is
to get alerts to people who need them the most,
who are going to feel weak, shaking, or greater. And
that's equivalent to say, if you've ever had the heavy
truck fast by your house and you feel kind of
that vibration, you have that kind of moment where you say, like,
what was that? And that's where we start delivering alerts
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for earthquakes that are estimated to be Maggietude four and
a half or bigger. And this earthquake was estimated to
be a little bit bigger than that today by the
Shake alert system. So that's where the alerts will be delivered. Now,
there is a feature in my shape called home base,
where you can actually tell your phone that you were
actually somewhere else. So for example, yeah, so let's say
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you're traveling and you're traveling in Denver and your family
is in Los Angeles or San Francisco. You can actually
set up your my Shake app to actually think that
you're in San Francisco, so you get alerted for an
event that was there, so you know what's going on
at home. And that's a feature that only my Shake offers,
which is which is very helpful for some people.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
All Right, Robert Grute is with us shake alert dot Org.
I have another question for you here. I remember growing
up in the San Fernando Valley, the first or last
Friday of every month, these sirens went off at the
fire stations, and that was to prepare us for I
don't know whether it's an earthquake or a nuclear attack,
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you know, from Russia or the Soviet Union back then.
And is there anything in the future of what it
doesn't necessarily have to be on your phone that there'll
be an alarm system you can hear if you're at
a store, at a at a park, or at a stadium.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Absolutely, and yes, one of the biggest areas of growth
within the shakeload system is so we talk a lot
about people getting alerts on their phones, but there's a
real growth area in delivering alerts to systems like trains.
So Metrolink, for example, has integrated shake alert into their systems.
So if you're riding a Metrolink train and the shakelad
system issues alert, it could tell a train to stop
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or slow down or stop based on the engineering solution
that they've put together. We also work with Los Angeles Metro.
They've integrated shake alert into their maintenance facilities in some
of their buildings. Peter Sinai. So this is a really
big thing for us. Is. Yes, we talk about people
getting alerts on their phones, but there's this whole area
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of automated actions, things happening without people being involved that
will protect you during the earthquake, but also it will
help whatever that is survive the event and be usable afterwards.
So we're also thinking about recovery after the event is over.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Right, right, the information has been terrific. I hope you please,
you know you would come back with us. Robert Degrue
shake alert dot Org. I really appreciate it. And doctor
Lucy Jones said, you're the new guy. So we love
having a relationship with you because people are freaked out
by the concis instancy of these earthquakes.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
And she said, you're the new guy.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I appreciate all right, thank you, Robert, really appreciate Robert Degrut.
Go get the Shake Alert while Grocer's just downloaded it.
It's on my phone. It should be on your phone.
It's an app that can save your life and your
family's life. I don't know what is more important, Snapchat
or Shake Alert.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Well you'll figure that out.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
It's Conway's show. We're live on KFI. The Olympics are over.
I noticed that NBC tried to pull a fast one
on us last night. I wasn't thrilled. I wasn't impressed
at the end of it. At the end of the
closing ceremonies, they had Tom Cruise jump into the stadium
and then take the flag off to a plane and
it end up in Venice Beach. They kept saying, oh,
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we're live in Venice Beach. And I was watching with
my daughter and my sister and my wife, and they
kept saying, wow, the ocean looks really clear for Venice Beach.
I said, well, I said, you know what, I hate
that spoiled the party here, but I'm pretty familiar with
the coastline. That's not Venice Beach. And they said, no,
it says Venice Beach live, Venice Beach. I said, yeah,
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but there's no oil islands and oil terminals off Venice Beach.
I said, it looks more like Long Beach. Turns out
it was right. It was Long Beach. And I don't
know why they had to light everybody say it was live.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
It wasn't. It was taped on it was recorded on Saturday.
It wasn't live.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
It was recorded a day before, and it was in
Long Beach, not in Venice. But I think what happened
was they didn't want to say Long Beach. They wanted
to say Los Angeles and Long Beach is not in
the city.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Of LA And they said, they said La or did
they say Venice? No, they said Venice. Yeah, they said Venice,
which is which is part of LA City, Santa Monica is,
but Venice's and they really, yeah, yeah, Venice is It's
not so in Cysne. Technically La, it's Lam. Yeah, maybe,
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even though Santa Monica is right there, Santa Monica.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Yeah, Santa Monica is its own municipality. But Venice, I
think I'm ninety nine percent sure, is part of LA.
So they did this whole thing where they had a
chir on that said live and it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
And they also said it was Venice Beach and it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Why do they just keep lying to everybody?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
God, it's so easy to you know, to figure that
out that it's not Venice Beach, It's Long Beach.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
All right.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
So I'm going to give you a tip. I'm gonna
give you a him. I'm going to give you away.
You'll remember the Olympic Games. Okay, they start in twenty
twenty eight. So here's how you remember the opening day.
It's July. You'll have to remember that on your own, right,
and I think you can do that. July is part
of the summer, and you can remember July. So July
is the seventh seventh month of the year. January, February, March, April, May, June,
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July the seventh month of the year. Double that, it's
the fourteenth. That's the day begins seven to fourteen. Double
it again, multiply by two, and it's the twenty eighth,
seven fourteen twenty eight. Seven times two is fourteen times
two is twenty eight. Seven fourteen twenty eight is your
opening day, one thousand, four hundred and thirty two days away.
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Now Here is the awesome part of the Olympics, and
krozier Man, is the timing perfect for you? Really, you,
my friend, are going to turn sixty years old on
closing ceremony day, July thirtieth, twenty twenty eight, when everybody
in the city is partying. That's going to be your
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sixtieth birthday party, and we will all be there at
the coliseum with you partying. All right, You're going to
have the biggest sixtieth birthday party ever. No one's going
to have a bigger sixtieth party in the world than you.
You sixty on seven thirty, twenty eighth.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
We got we gotta go. I'm shaken just thinking about it.
We've got to go. I mean, I don't care what
tickets cost. We got to go. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
That sounds like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's gonna be great.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
I'm excited about the Olympics coming. We had to clean
up a lot around here a little bit. Got to
get the crime to stop, and got to get people
to behave The homeless people are gonna have to buzz
out of town for a couple of weeks. You can
come back, but you got to you gotta split for
comple They're.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Gonna use all those buses to get all the public
transportation to events. They can use those before and after
the US the homeless people in and out.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Yeah, they're going to change that.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
By the way, you think so when wealthy people find
out that they have to go on a bus with us,
they're not going to do that. And ticket sales are
going to go in the toilet.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
What if there's going to be special lots with special
buses for the people that have money.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
I think limos services are going you know, limost services
in this town have a lot of sway. They get
a lot of pull, a lot of clout, and they're
going to call the mayor and say, look, we run
Jackson limousine or you know, DuPont limousine, whatever it is,
and we want access to the Olympics and we're going
to get it.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
You were driving limos at the time.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Yeah, four, I drove limousine for nineteen eighty four Olympics
and everyone was so afraid of traffic that I remember
picking a guy up. He was going to go to
a five thirty boxing match. Can't remember who. I think
Hollyfield was one of the boxers, but he was going
to go to a five thirty boxing match. He said, hey,
can you pick me up at twelve thirty? And I
said yeah, And he said, do you think we'll make
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it by five thirty if we leave at twelve thirty
Santa Monica, I said, I think we got a good shot.
I think we got a good shot. So I pick
him up at twelve thirty. We leave his place around
twelve forty five. We get to the coliseum at one
oh five. It was there was nobody on the freeway, nobody.
We get down there in eighteen minutes. I dropp him
off at one oh five for a five thirty boxing match.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
But he didn't mind.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
He walked around for four hours and enjoyed it. And
everyone is going to be staying at USC. They're gonna
turn USC into the Olympic Village, and so all the
dorms there are going to be taken up by athletes
and you know, support staff.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
I had heard that they in the eighty four Olympics
because I wasn't out here in La that. Yeah, the
freeways were empty for the entirety of the Olympics, Like
either people left town, yeah, or they just didn't go.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Well, there was a rumor going around that there was
gonna be bumper to bumper traffic starting on Sherman Way
and Reseda all the way to the coliseum. Turns out
everybody split. Nobody was in town, and you could there
was not one day of traffic, not one hour or
one day of traffic during COVID yeah, oh yeah, yeah,
or on like a like at five am on Christmas
morning driving down a Ventura bulver in the seventies, nobody around, nobody.
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But we come back, I'll talk about the venues. The
venues have been decided and where we're getting the next games.
You know, you just saw the closing ceremonies last night.
We get the next ones, They're gonna be right here
in our backyard.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
It's very exciting.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
In one thousand, four hundred, I remember that one thousand,
four hundred and thirty two days from today, is opening ceremony,
and then Krozier's birthday on closing night. He turned sixty
on the closing ceremony. How great is What kind of
timing is that? I'll go put out the torch? What
kind of timing is that sixty years on closing day?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
That is great.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on de Mayo from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Ding Dong with these Olympics.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Man, they're on the way, on the way, and we've
got all the venues for you here. They're gonna turn
Sofi Stadium into a swimming stadium. They're gonna dig out
the actual turf course or the turf field for football
and shrink it a little. It'll go from seventy six
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thousand seats to thirty eight thousand, and they're gonna live
really build a swimming pool where the football field is,
and then they're gonna have to take that swimming pool
out and put the field back before football begins about
a month later. So it's gonna be kind of cool
that we get the next Olympics. And you know, anytime
the Olympics comes to an end, you're sad, unless unless
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you're the next host city, and that's US.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
That's US.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
There's a pool at Exposition Park they're gonna use for
diving the same pool they used for swimming last time.
Around Downtown Los Angeles, Crypto dot Com will be used
for a lot of the fencing, the taekwondo, and the
you know, the fighting. A lot of people fighting, and
there's fighting down there anyway, so I might as well
take them inside and look at more fighting.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
There's an arena at in Inglewood. They're going to use
the new Clippers arena for basketball. Long Beach will be
used the arena, and Long Beach will be used as well.
On and Belmont Shore in Long Beach. That'll be another facility,
another venue. The Convention Center is another one, and the
Convention Center also in Long Beach will use that at
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the Equestrian Center in Temecula. The Equestrian Center in Temecula,
and I heard that that Santa Anita is going to
get one of the equestrian events, and they're already digging
up the infield at Santa Anita to use that. The
fields at Carson. I'm not sure what they're going to
use the fields for, but that'll be another venue. The
Memorial Coliseum will have the opening and closing ceremonies, I believe,
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and I think they're going to also use the Rose Bowl.
They're going to use the Marine Stadium in Long Beach
for rowing. Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles will be
used for golf. The Sepulvta Basin and recreation area, that's great,
they're going to use finally use that and maybe make
some improvements there as well. But the Supulvta Basin out
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there where they one oh one and the four h
five meet, that's going to be used in the second
largest urban park in Los Angeles. It's gonna be indoor
and outdoor facilities. Several golf courses are out there. It's
a beautiful park and picnic area, and it'll be used
for I think the first time it's gonna be archery,
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BMX freestyle, the bikes, BMX racing, and skateboarding. So it's
perfect for the valley. Finally we get some action in
the San Fernando Valley. The stadium in Carson they'll be
using that as well, So if you live down the
Carson area, that'll be rugby for the Carson Stadium. That's
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a big event in the Summer Olympics, and the Velodrome
in Carson will be used for cycling. USC Sports arena.
I think they call it the Galen the Galen Center
that's gonna be used for badminton. So I don't know
how they figure this out, but they think there's going
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to be fifteen to eighteen thousand people that want to
see badminton. And then Oklahoma City will be used for
whitewater rafting, and I believe softball. I think they'll change
that though. I think softball will be moved to Los Angeles.
It would be horrible to make the softball team. You know,
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the opening ceremonies in LA, then you get on a flight,
you go to Oklahoma City. But the real cool thing
to be to get tickets for obviously opening closing ceremony.
The opening ceremonies on July fourteenth of twenty twenty eight,
just four short years from now, less than four years,
and the closing ceremony will be on July thirtieth, Krozier's birthday,
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my sister's birthday as well, so you guys can celebrate
your birthdays. But that's going to be a really cool event,
you know, to have it right here in Los Angeles.
Snoop Dogg is already signed on. He made five hundred
thousand dollars a day while he's in Paris. That's it,
n be he paid him.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
He earned it. Though he got so much good pub
he did. It was great.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Five hundred thousand dollars uh day for one day, that's.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
What they paid.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
So there's gonna be a lot of jobs available, a
lot of opportunity for you to work the Olympics, maybe
as a volunteer. Maybe it's a ticket holder, a ticket taker,
I should say, Uh, there's gonna be a lot of
you know, organizations that need help. There will be a
lot of companies that will have their tents, you know,
Bank America, Taco Bell, you know, all the Coca Cola,
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seven Up, Pepsi, all the big tents and all the
big parties will be happening and they're gonna need some
people to help. So there's gonna be a lot of
opportunity for you to enjoy these games. And we might
as well start to enjoy them now and help the
city build up. And again, when my when we used
to travel as a family, when I was younger, my
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mom had my mom and dad had kids, so whenever
we traveled, there was at least eight of us, and
my mom always had a saying before we left the
house on a vacation, and she always used to either
in the car or sit us down, all of us
before we left, and she would always say, guys, remember
when we go to see the world, the world sees us,
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which means you better f and behave. So I remember
traveling with my mom and dad. My mom and dad
used to sit up in front in first class, and
then the six kids would be in coach, which makes sense, right,
I mean, they don't want to pay for everybody.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
I don't think they can could even.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Afford it, but they wanted to sit up and enjoy
first class and keep us back in coach. And we
were thrilled not to be with them anyway, because we
could sort of goof around a little. But my dad
would always come back before the flight took off, and
we'd have three kids on one side, three on the other.
We'd take up an entire aisle of six of us,
and my dad would always say, if I have to
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come back here because you guys are screwing around, I'm
going to open that door in the back and throw
all of you out of here, And we didn't.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Know whether he was kidding or not. We never tested it.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
We sat there like like mannequins for the five hour
trip to Cleveland, manniquins, never moving, and we we we
were a good looking crew because we were always in
suit and tie when we traveled, sports coat and tie
even you know, my brother was like a year old,
two years old, sport coat and tie.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
You're the oldest, right, yeah. My sister's older sister was older.
Were you guys kind of in charge of the other
ones at all? Oh?
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, keep an eye on everybody.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Yeah, but my sister could not get on that plane
without a dress on. My mom said, there's no pants,
there's no jeans, there's no dittos, sremida fairs, all that.
You know, Jordan ash done to that craft. It's it's
a dress on the on the girls, and sports coat
and slacks and a tie for the boys. And that's
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how we travel and very comfortable. You know, you're six
at a suit and tie cross country?
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Any of you guys have the problem? Were?
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Did she really keep you guys all in line?
Speaker 2 (31:13):
No?
Speaker 1 (31:14):
I had two brothers. I won't mention them. We're huge
problems a lot of the time on both legs. Nice
to Cleveland and home of Cleveland, the Conways, big problem
to my brothers, big problem later on life. Just one
of them was a mess. And we always had to
keep an eye on that guy. Always had to keep
n eyeing what was going on with that guy. But
that was my job, keep an eye on that guy.
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All right, we're live. What a couple hours earthquake. We
talked about it into an astronaut Olympics band. It's almost
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It's k IF. I am sixty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. You
may have felt the earthquake earlier. It was a four
point four. Thank god it wasn't the big one. But
I have the Shake alert and I hope you get
it too. It's a it's an app that warns you
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a couple of seconds before the earthquake kids, and that
sort of freaks you out, but it prepares you well
what's coming. And we have a guy who's very involved
with this. Robert de Grute is with us. Robert, how
are you, sir?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I'm good? How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I'm doing great. We had Lucy Jones on earlier, Doctor
Lucy Jones.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
She said to say, hey, yeah, she's amazing.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
She's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
But she said, you're the new guy. You know, she
stepped aside, and you're that and you're now the guy
that has to calm everybody down after these after this activity.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Lucy's a hard act to follow.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
That's true. That's true, all right.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
So how many shake alerts or how many earthquake warning
apps are out there?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
You know of either five or the one hundred.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Sure you can learn about the sorts of alerts, alert
delivery apps and such. If you visit shakelert dot org. Okay,
and there's a link there that I'll get to to
where you want to go to get your phone set up.
And there are a few ways to get alerts on
your phones. One is through the same system that delivers
Amber alerts, wireless emergency alerts, and if you have your
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emergency alerts set up on your phone in your notification section,
you'll get those automatically. And then there are a couple
of apps that you can download. My Shake which is
produced by UC Berkeley that is available in the App
Store for either Android or for iOS. And then there's
something called shake rady SD which is actually published developed
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by the County of San Diego and I know it's
San Diego County, but they actually deliver earthquake alerts throughout
the date of hell. So I got one on my phone.
And then the last way of getting alerts currently is
through phones that are powered by the Android operating system,
So essentially Google Google delivers alerts through the Android operating system.
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And our advice is to go ahead and get them
all if you're able to, and just get alerts from
as many places as possible. I got alerts today both
from my Shake and from shake ratey SD on my phone.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Are they free? Are they pay subscription?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Everything is free. And part of it is is this
is Shake Alert is our public earthquake early warning systems.
It's your earth quick early warning system. So these services
are all free, okay.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
And they operate.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I'm sure there are sensors around that trigger the alert.
Is that how it happens.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yes, Basically how it works is the same seismometers that
detect earthquakes that have always been detecting earthquakes have been
set up in such a way to continue doing what
they've always been doing. But then there's also a channel
where they move information in a fraction of a second
from where the earthquake is happening to a processing center.
And the under the hood stuff is basically these these
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detection algorithms that calculate the estimated location, magnitude and shaking
intensities around the earthquake super fast, and then we hand
it off to Google, into my Shake and to we
and others, and they turn around deliver alerts to people's phones.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
And this is happening in microseconds.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
It's happening in fractions of a second. Yes, imagine you know,
everything happening. So the amount of data that we use
to actually calculate that first estimate is put your hand
on your heart. Feel a couple of heartbeats. That's the
amount of time it takes the Shake LIT system to
do what it does.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Wow, that's great technology. I mean that what a you know.
I can't imagine not having it on your phone. I
don't know what app would be more important than that.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
That's right. Well, it's one tool in your toolbox. So
tell everyone, do what you've always been doing. Drop govern
hold on if you feel shaking, have your emergency supply
kits available. Do everything that you've been told to do
in the past. But add this new tool, the Shake
Earthquake Early Warning System, to your phone and get alerts
and hopefully you'll receive an alert before shaking a rise.
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But one thing to remember is that you may feel
a little bit of shaking before you get the alert.
That actually has happened to me twice already with the
O High earthquake back in August of twenty twenty three,
and even with the earthquake just recently, tiny bit of shaking.
But what we want to do is we want to
get alerts to people before the heaviest shaking rise, the
stuff that could cause injury or damage, and you can
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get to a place where you can protect yourself.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Okay, and again this is great Robert de Grudez with us.
He's with you can go to shake alert dot com.
But can you adjust these for magnitude, like I don't
want to be bothered by anything that's under or under
a five point zero.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah, So one of the things to know is that,
And you can find out more information about all of
this on shake alert dot org or follow us on
x at USGS underscore shake alert. And currently what you
can do is you can only set up the products
to receive alerts at the levels that they have preset.
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And there's a reasoning behind that. Shake alert is really
a balance between speed and accuracy, and what we want
to do is want to get alerts to people who
need them the most. So, yes, sometimes you may feel
a little bit of shaking and still get an alert,
but what you're guaranteeing by that is that the people
who are closer in closer to the epicenter will get
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that alert sooner. Because basically you've chosen or you're getting
the alert at the level that you're getting it at.
So it's a trade off, right, But there's so many
earthquakes in California, like fifty a day, that the chances
that you may be near one that you may need
that alert, it's pretty likely. I mean, just look at
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what's been happening. We had OHI back in August of
twenty three, we had the Barstowl earthquake, back on July
twenty ninth, the Laman earthquake, last Tuesday, and today Highland Park.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Now, doctor Lucy Jones said when the big one hits
that it'll either start in the north. It's like ripping
a piece of paper, it'll start in the south, or
it'll start in the north. If it does start in
the north, well how many seconds will we have up
to a minute before we start radically feeling it.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
So the earthquake that she's referring to is the great
shakeout scenario, and that is an earthquake that even if
it starts in the south, say Bombay Beach, and I'll
use that example. Basically, will happen is we will pick
up that earthquake in the first several seconds that when
it reaches a surface, and what will happen in that case,
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much like what happened in Barstoor excuse me in last week. Yeah,
the system will be triggered and alerts will be sent
out ahead. So in my case last week, I had
in the order of fifteen seconds of warning time before
I felt shaking one life and I felt shaking it
at home. So imagine that that even if the earthquick
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starts in the north farther north, say you know, one
hundred and eighty miles north or one hundred and eighty
miles south for this event, if Senator has fault like
eight hundred miles long, will get you know, a considerable
amount of warning time before the before the shaking arrives
at our location. And when that's the idea behind shake alert, right, and.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
When the big one hits, will the entire San Andrea's
fault move at the same time, all eight hundred miles
of it.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Think of it kind of like unzipping a zipper on
a sweater, and it's unzipping and the pulse of the
earthquake it's in Lucy probably used the tearing of a
piece of paper with you and just imagine that that
rip moving up and basically the fault is moving progressing.
The fault is moving as as the earthquake is progressing
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up the fault, and it takes, in this case with
the earthquake that we're talking about, around ninety seconds for
the entire entire one hundred and eighty miles to rupture.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
So and basically what's happenings that as as as the
earthquake is moving up the fault over those course of
the ninety seconds, there's energy being released. Imagine just dropping
like hundreds and hundreds of pebbles into a pond and
having all these ripples moving away. And that's that's basically
what's happening. But what's really cool about shake Older is
that as soon as that earthquake reaches the surface, that's
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when the system is triggered and that's when all the
action starts. Okay, quick swings in.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Action, Robert, I'm sorry, can we have you hold on
a ton more questions about this?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Do you mind?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Absolutely anything you wants?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
This is the best.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Okay, Robert Grute is with us Shake alert dot org.
Go to the website shake alert dot org. I have
more questions. This app could save your life if you've
got the porstion out of online.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Welcome to kfive.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
We're talking with with Robert here, Robert DeGroot shakelert dot
org to warn you about the next one or the
big one, God forbid heaven.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
It's got all the all the it's the bestments that
you you were talking about.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
You make on it. Yeah, in magnitude. It's awesome.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
We'll go back and continue talking about the shake alert
shake alert dot org. Go get it now while you're
thinking about it, and this is this is great. Robert
knows more about than anybody.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Shake alert dot org. You got to get the shake
alert on your phone so you can be warned when
the big one hits. I think we all not a
lot of us are saying it, but we're all thinking it.
Way too many quakes. Where's the big one? Robert, Welcome back.
I really appreciate coming on. Do we have Are we
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any closer to predicting earthquakes than we were thousand years ago?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
There have been periods of time where there's been a
lot of optimism around being able to predict earthquakes in
the sense that we know an earthquake is going to
happen in this particular place at this time, and it's
going to be this size. But a lot of those
efforts have been sort of put aside, and rather than
putting resources into the prediction side of things, we're putting
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a lot of resources into improving our infrastructure and early Yeah,
early warning is actually a really nice trade off where
we we're improving our computer software, our instruments, our equipment
to pick up that earthquake the moment that it reaches
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the surface and moving that information quickly and doing something
with it right away so lorts can get to people,
and that to us is the most tangible and most
accessible thing that we can be doing right now. Is
really improving that plus also all the things we do
to be earthquake ready.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Yes, right, And you can learn on all about all
this stuff at shake alert dot org. I know there's
a lot of people tuning in a KFI. Maybe for
the first time you got a notice here that we're
talking about this shake alert. This could save your life,
So thank god you're tuning in now, Robert. I also
heard that that we may have been we may be
late to the game. Mexico's had this technology for a
(11:25):
long time, so is Japan.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Is that true?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
So there have been earthquake early warning systems in other
countries for a long time, and Mexico developed THEIRS after
the nineteen eighty five Mitri Conn earthquake and debuted there's
just a few years later, and then Japan started their's
developed THEIRS after the nineteen ninety five Kobe earthquake. And
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we have been working on early warning for some time,
and there's some early sort of tests that we did
actually right around the time of the Loma Priet earthquake
in nineteen eighty nine. But our system is top of
the line. In fact, our system and the Japanese system
are very very similar. But then the Canadians just debuted
their system in Western British Columbia and we'll be expanding
(12:09):
to other parts of the country and it's very similar
to our system. So we're using state of the art
everything for this public or quick early warning system.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I have the box Office Alert and it warns me
anytime John Travolta releases a.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Movie that's awesome. Yeah, I don't even know what that means.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
But you know Sharon Bellio who lives down in Irvine,
she was up here in Burbank and she didn't get
the early warning. She didn't get the Shake alert because
she lives in Irvine, and I think her phone thought
she was a Irvine. Is that technology travel with you
if you're in San Francisco and the big one hits,
but yet you live in Irvine, will it miss you
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or will it warn you?
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
So the alerts were delivered today to people who were
in a certain intense to range. And the idea is
to get alerts to people who need them the most,
who are going to feel weak, shaking, or greater. And
that's equivalent to say, if you've ever had the heavy
truck fast by your house and you feel kind of
that vibration, you have that kind of moment where you say, like,
what was that? And that's where we start delivering alerts
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for earthquakes that are estimated to be Maggietude four and
a half or bigger. And this earthquake was estimated to
be a little bit bigger than that today by the
Shake alert system. So that's where the alerts will be delivered. Now,
there is a feature in my shape called home base,
where you can actually tell your phone that you were
actually somewhere else. So for example, yeah, so let's say
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you're traveling and you're traveling in Denver and your family
is in Los Angeles or San Francisco. You can actually
set up your my Shake app to actually think that
you're in San Francisco, so you get alerted for an
event that was there, so you know what's going on
at home. And that's a feature that only my Shake offers,
which is which is very helpful for some people.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
All Right, Robert Grute is with us shake alert dot Org.
I have another question for you here. I remember growing
up in the San Fernando Valley, the first or last
Friday of every month, these sirens went off at the
fire stations, and that was to prepare us for I
don't know whether it's an earthquake or a nuclear attack,
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you know, from Russia or the Soviet Union back then.
And is there anything in the future of what it
doesn't necessarily have to be on your phone that there'll
be an alarm system you can hear if you're at
a store, at a at a park, or at a stadium.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Absolutely, and yes, one of the biggest areas of growth
within the shakeload system is so we talk a lot
about people getting alerts on their phones, but there's a
real growth area in delivering alerts to systems like trains.
So Metrolink, for example, has integrated shake alert into their systems.
So if you're riding a Metrolink train and the shakelad
system issues alert, it could tell a train to stop
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or slow down or stop based on the engineering solution
that they've put together. We also work with Los Angeles Metro.
They've integrated shake alert into their maintenance facilities in some
of their buildings. Peter Sinai. So this is a really
big thing for us. Is. Yes, we talk about people
getting alerts on their phones, but there's this whole area
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of automated actions, things happening without people being involved that
will protect you during the earthquake, but also it will
help whatever that is survive the event and be usable afterwards.
So we're also thinking about recovery after the event is over.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Right, right, the information has been terrific. I hope you please,
you know you would come back with us. Robert Degrue
shake alert dot Org. I really appreciate it. And doctor
Lucy Jones said, you're the new guy. So we love
having a relationship with you because people are freaked out
by the concis instancy of these earthquakes.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
And she said, you're the new guy.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I appreciate all right, thank you, Robert, really appreciate Robert Degrut.
Go get the Shake Alert while Grocer's just downloaded it.
It's on my phone. It should be on your phone.
It's an app that can save your life and your
family's life. I don't know what is more important, Snapchat
or Shake Alert.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Well you'll figure that out.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
It's Conway's show. We're live on KFI. The Olympics are over.
I noticed that NBC tried to pull a fast one
on us last night. I wasn't thrilled. I wasn't impressed
at the end of it. At the end of the
closing ceremonies, they had Tom Cruise jump into the stadium
and then take the flag off to a plane and
it end up in Venice Beach. They kept saying, oh,
(16:55):
we're live in Venice Beach. And I was watching with
my daughter and my sister and my wife, and they
kept saying, wow, the ocean looks really clear for Venice Beach.
I said, well, I said, you know what, I hate
that spoiled the party here, but I'm pretty familiar with
the coastline. That's not Venice Beach. And they said, no,
it says Venice Beach live, Venice Beach. I said, yeah,
(17:18):
but there's no oil islands and oil terminals off Venice Beach.
I said, it looks more like Long Beach. Turns out
it was right. It was Long Beach. And I don't
know why they had to light everybody say it was live.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
It wasn't. It was taped on it was recorded on Saturday.
It wasn't live.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
It was recorded a day before, and it was in
Long Beach, not in Venice. But I think what happened
was they didn't want to say Long Beach. They wanted
to say Los Angeles and Long Beach is not in
the city.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Of LA And they said, they said La or did
they say Venice? No, they said Venice. Yeah, they said Venice,
which is which is part of LA City, Santa Monica is,
but Venice's and they really, yeah, yeah, Venice is It's
not so in Cysne. Technically La, it's Lam. Yeah, maybe,
(18:09):
even though Santa Monica is right there, Santa Monica.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Yeah, Santa Monica is its own municipality. But Venice, I
think I'm ninety nine percent sure, is part of LA.
So they did this whole thing where they had a
chir on that said live and it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
And they also said it was Venice Beach and it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Why do they just keep lying to everybody?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
God, it's so easy to you know, to figure that
out that it's not Venice Beach, It's Long Beach.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
All right.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
So I'm going to give you a tip. I'm gonna
give you a him. I'm going to give you away.
You'll remember the Olympic Games. Okay, they start in twenty
twenty eight. So here's how you remember the opening day.
It's July. You'll have to remember that on your own, right,
and I think you can do that. July is part
of the summer, and you can remember July. So July
is the seventh seventh month of the year. January, February, March, April, May, June,
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July the seventh month of the year. Double that, it's
the fourteenth. That's the day begins seven to fourteen. Double
it again, multiply by two, and it's the twenty eighth,
seven fourteen twenty eight. Seven times two is fourteen times
two is twenty eight. Seven fourteen twenty eight is your
opening day, one thousand, four hundred and thirty two days away.
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Now Here is the awesome part of the Olympics, and
krozier Man, is the timing perfect for you? Really, you,
my friend, are going to turn sixty years old on
closing ceremony day, July thirtieth, twenty twenty eight, when everybody
in the city is partying. That's going to be your
(19:44):
sixtieth birthday party, and we will all be there at
the coliseum with you partying. All right, You're going to
have the biggest sixtieth birthday party ever. No one's going
to have a bigger sixtieth party in the world than you.
You sixty on seven thirty, twenty eighth.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
We got we gotta go. I'm shaken just thinking about it.
We've got to go. I mean, I don't care what
tickets cost. We got to go. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
That sounds like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's gonna be great.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
I'm excited about the Olympics coming. We had to clean
up a lot around here a little bit. Got to
get the crime to stop, and got to get people
to behave The homeless people are gonna have to buzz
out of town for a couple of weeks. You can
come back, but you got to you gotta split for
comple They're.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Gonna use all those buses to get all the public
transportation to events. They can use those before and after
the US the homeless people in and out.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Yeah, they're going to change that.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
By the way, you think so when wealthy people find
out that they have to go on a bus with us,
they're not going to do that. And ticket sales are
going to go in the toilet.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
What if there's going to be special lots with special
buses for the people that have money.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
I think limos services are going you know, limost services
in this town have a lot of sway. They get
a lot of pull, a lot of clout, and they're
going to call the mayor and say, look, we run
Jackson limousine or you know, DuPont limousine, whatever it is,
and we want access to the Olympics and we're going
to get it.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
You were driving limos at the time.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Yeah, four, I drove limousine for nineteen eighty four Olympics
and everyone was so afraid of traffic that I remember
picking a guy up. He was going to go to
a five thirty boxing match. Can't remember who. I think
Hollyfield was one of the boxers, but he was going
to go to a five thirty boxing match. He said, hey,
can you pick me up at twelve thirty? And I
said yeah, And he said, do you think we'll make
(21:32):
it by five thirty if we leave at twelve thirty
Santa Monica, I said, I think we got a good shot.
I think we got a good shot. So I pick
him up at twelve thirty. We leave his place around
twelve forty five. We get to the coliseum at one
oh five. It was there was nobody on the freeway, nobody.
We get down there in eighteen minutes. I dropp him
off at one oh five for a five thirty boxing match.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
But he didn't mind.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
He walked around for four hours and enjoyed it. And
everyone is going to be staying at USC. They're gonna
turn USC into the Olympic Village, and so all the
dorms there are going to be taken up by athletes
and you know, support staff.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
I had heard that they in the eighty four Olympics
because I wasn't out here in La that. Yeah, the
freeways were empty for the entirety of the Olympics, Like
either people left town, yeah, or they just didn't go.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Well, there was a rumor going around that there was
gonna be bumper to bumper traffic starting on Sherman Way
and Reseda all the way to the coliseum. Turns out
everybody split. Nobody was in town, and you could there
was not one day of traffic, not one hour or
one day of traffic during COVID yeah, oh yeah, yeah,
or on like a like at five am on Christmas
morning driving down a Ventura bulver in the seventies, nobody around, nobody.
(22:44):
But we come back, I'll talk about the venues. The
venues have been decided and where we're getting the next games.
You know, you just saw the closing ceremonies last night.
We get the next ones, They're gonna be right here
in our backyard.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
It's very exciting.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
In one thousand, four hundred, I remember that one thousand,
four hundred and thirty two days from today, is opening ceremony,
and then Krozier's birthday on closing night. He turned sixty
on the closing ceremony. How great is What kind of
timing is that? I'll go put out the torch? What
kind of timing is that sixty years on closing day?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
That is great.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
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Speaker 3 (23:33):
Ding Dong with these Olympics.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Man, they're on the way, on the way, and we've
got all the venues for you here. They're gonna turn
Sofi Stadium into a swimming stadium. They're gonna dig out
the actual turf course or the turf field for football
and shrink it a little. It'll go from seventy six
(23:57):
thousand seats to thirty eight thousand, and they're gonna live
really build a swimming pool where the football field is,
and then they're gonna have to take that swimming pool
out and put the field back before football begins about
a month later. So it's gonna be kind of cool
that we get the next Olympics. And you know, anytime
the Olympics comes to an end, you're sad, unless unless
(24:21):
you're the next host city, and that's US.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
That's US.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
There's a pool at Exposition Park they're gonna use for
diving the same pool they used for swimming last time.
Around Downtown Los Angeles, Crypto dot Com will be used
for a lot of the fencing, the taekwondo, and the
you know, the fighting. A lot of people fighting, and
there's fighting down there anyway, so I might as well
take them inside and look at more fighting.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
There's an arena at in Inglewood. They're going to use
the new Clippers arena for basketball. Long Beach will be
used the arena, and Long Beach will be used as well.
On and Belmont Shore in Long Beach. That'll be another facility,
another venue. The Convention Center is another one, and the
Convention Center also in Long Beach will use that at
(25:10):
the Equestrian Center in Temecula. The Equestrian Center in Temecula,
and I heard that that Santa Anita is going to
get one of the equestrian events, and they're already digging
up the infield at Santa Anita to use that. The
fields at Carson. I'm not sure what they're going to
use the fields for, but that'll be another venue. The
Memorial Coliseum will have the opening and closing ceremonies, I believe,
(25:34):
and I think they're going to also use the Rose Bowl.
They're going to use the Marine Stadium in Long Beach
for rowing. Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles will be
used for golf. The Sepulvta Basin and recreation area, that's great,
they're going to use finally use that and maybe make
some improvements there as well. But the Supulvta Basin out
(25:56):
there where they one oh one and the four h
five meet, that's going to be used in the second
largest urban park in Los Angeles. It's gonna be indoor
and outdoor facilities. Several golf courses are out there. It's
a beautiful park and picnic area, and it'll be used
for I think the first time it's gonna be archery,
(26:17):
BMX freestyle, the bikes, BMX racing, and skateboarding. So it's
perfect for the valley. Finally we get some action in
the San Fernando Valley. The stadium in Carson they'll be
using that as well, So if you live down the
Carson area, that'll be rugby for the Carson Stadium. That's
(26:37):
a big event in the Summer Olympics, and the Velodrome
in Carson will be used for cycling. USC Sports arena.
I think they call it the Galen the Galen Center
that's gonna be used for badminton. So I don't know
how they figure this out, but they think there's going
(26:58):
to be fifteen to eighteen thousand people that want to
see badminton. And then Oklahoma City will be used for
whitewater rafting, and I believe softball. I think they'll change
that though. I think softball will be moved to Los Angeles.
It would be horrible to make the softball team. You know,
(27:20):
the opening ceremonies in LA, then you get on a flight,
you go to Oklahoma City. But the real cool thing
to be to get tickets for obviously opening closing ceremony.
The opening ceremonies on July fourteenth of twenty twenty eight,
just four short years from now, less than four years,
and the closing ceremony will be on July thirtieth, Krozier's birthday,
(27:41):
my sister's birthday as well, so you guys can celebrate
your birthdays. But that's going to be a really cool event,
you know, to have it right here in Los Angeles.
Snoop Dogg is already signed on. He made five hundred
thousand dollars a day while he's in Paris. That's it,
n be he paid him.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
He earned it. Though he got so much good pub
he did. It was great.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Five hundred thousand dollars uh day for one day, that's.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
What they paid.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
So there's gonna be a lot of jobs available, a
lot of opportunity for you to work the Olympics, maybe
as a volunteer. Maybe it's a ticket holder, a ticket taker,
I should say, Uh, there's gonna be a lot of
you know, organizations that need help. There will be a
lot of companies that will have their tents, you know,
Bank America, Taco Bell, you know, all the Coca Cola,
(28:37):
seven Up, Pepsi, all the big tents and all the
big parties will be happening and they're gonna need some
people to help. So there's gonna be a lot of
opportunity for you to enjoy these games. And we might
as well start to enjoy them now and help the
city build up. And again, when my when we used
to travel as a family, when I was younger, my
(28:58):
mom had my mom and dad had kids, so whenever
we traveled, there was at least eight of us, and
my mom always had a saying before we left the
house on a vacation, and she always used to either
in the car or sit us down, all of us
before we left, and she would always say, guys, remember
when we go to see the world, the world sees us,
(29:21):
which means you better f and behave. So I remember
traveling with my mom and dad. My mom and dad
used to sit up in front in first class, and
then the six kids would be in coach, which makes sense, right,
I mean, they don't want to pay for everybody.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
I don't think they can could even.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Afford it, but they wanted to sit up and enjoy
first class and keep us back in coach. And we
were thrilled not to be with them anyway, because we
could sort of goof around a little. But my dad
would always come back before the flight took off, and
we'd have three kids on one side, three on the other.
We'd take up an entire aisle of six of us,
and my dad would always say, if I have to
(30:00):
come back here because you guys are screwing around, I'm
going to open that door in the back and throw
all of you out of here, And we didn't.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Know whether he was kidding or not. We never tested it.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
We sat there like like mannequins for the five hour
trip to Cleveland, manniquins, never moving, and we we we
were a good looking crew because we were always in
suit and tie when we traveled, sports coat and tie
even you know, my brother was like a year old,
two years old, sport coat and tie.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
You're the oldest, right, yeah. My sister's older sister was older.
Were you guys kind of in charge of the other
ones at all? Oh?
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, keep an eye on everybody.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Yeah, but my sister could not get on that plane
without a dress on. My mom said, there's no pants,
there's no jeans, there's no dittos, sremida fairs, all that.
You know, Jordan ash done to that craft. It's it's
a dress on the on the girls, and sports coat
and slacks and a tie for the boys. And that's
(31:04):
how we travel and very comfortable. You know, you're six
at a suit and tie cross country?
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Any of you guys have the problem? Were?
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Did she really keep you guys all in line?
Speaker 2 (31:13):
No?
Speaker 1 (31:14):
I had two brothers. I won't mention them. We're huge
problems a lot of the time on both legs. Nice
to Cleveland and home of Cleveland, the Conways, big problem
to my brothers, big problem later on life. Just one
of them was a mess. And we always had to
keep an eye on that guy. Always had to keep
n eyeing what was going on with that guy. But
that was my job, keep an eye on that guy.
(31:35):
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